Who Are The Sami?
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In the frozen Far-North of Europe, beneath the Northern Lights, lies a land of snow, endless tundra, and dense forests. Where ancient languages and songs echo on the frigid air. Where majestic reindeer roam...majestically.
Anyway...this is Sapmi, home of the Sami people. The indigenous people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula.
Located mostly north of the Arctic circle, in Sapmi the sun disappears for months in the winter, and may never set in the summer. This is what midnight looks like in summer. For thousands of years the Sami have not only survived but thrived in this land of -30 degree celsius winters and midsummer snows.
But who are the Sami, what is their story, and wizards...can they help you find your lost socks??? Well Let's Find Out!
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I am requesting you from a long time please make a video on what is Christianity
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I love your videos and am interested in any future stuff you are involved in.
Mooses might be more fun to say then moose, but meese, beats out them all. Lol
The erasure of saami culture and language by way of forcing the children into boarding schools reminds me of the residential schools founded in Canada in order to stamp out First Nations culture 😔
This also happened where I grew up in southern Appalachia with the Muskogee Creek and Chicamauga Cherokee tribes through the 1950s.
Same thing was happening in Australia with aborigines too, it’s devastating for culture
As Canadian, I agree with that emoji. Settlers back then were evil.
It’s still happening to Uyghur people in China
@@jennyleung7533 bruh they isn’t taught they are put in concentration camps to die
The Yoik singer was so peaceful.
9:47
Somebody's probably already pointed this out, but the modern Sámi flag doesn't represent a drum. It represents a sun-moon symbol that was often depicted on drums.
Outside of that minor mistake, this is a top-tier video.
Also the first flag was unofficial.
As a Sami I found this video surprisingly accurate, and detailed, not that both couldn't have been improved.
duohtavuohta
I am also a Sami. Sad thing is when my class is learning about our people, all the girls are disreapecting our people and all the boyse are speachless.
Broke: Moose
Woke: Mooses
Ascended: M E E S E
Gods: *_M E E C E_*_-_
Kratos: *_M I I S_*
saami:PORO
Me: M E E Z
Even more ascendeder: meeses
This video makes me so sad. I wish all of human race treated nature with respect, and didn't let greed get the better of us. Great video...loved learning about the Sami. Love from India.
You guys kill Adivasis in India
@@Hoe-numan5 yes we did, and I wish that didn't happen.
@@shinydas1767 it still happens whyyy
@Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh where are you from
@@shinydas1767 this didn’t age well lmaooooooo
My ancestors were sami and this is such a useful video, my great grandfather passed away before i could really talk to him about our finnish/semi ancestry. I just wish I could have wathed this video with him. I know he would have loved it.
Thank you.
Mine too, mine died at war in a plane crash.
Thank you for the video! I'm not Sámi, but I'm studying Sámi studies in the university, and I think this was resonably accurate, and raised many of the most important Sámi issues.
The state of it
@@pelayo341 What
The Sami are not the indigenous people of Norway! Norwegians were already here 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, the Sami came much later, about 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.
@@luringen947 Lol. Norwegians didn't exist back then. Even Proto-Indo-Europeans didn't exist until 6500 years ago.
Norwegians come from two ethnic groups. one group came to Norway for approx. 12,000 years ago. and the other group came about 5,600 years ago. but the Sami did not arrive until 2000-2500 years ago. and mingled with us. you can just google and you will see.
Thank you for making this video and educating the internet about my people. Eatnat áktet!
It's heartbreaking what the rich and powerful did to the tapestry of beautiful and diverse cultures of the world.
@Eric Walls As well as alcoholism, disease, genocide, poverty, erasure of their culture and language, human trafficking, etc. All these has been done to not just the Sami, but also the Ainu of Japan; Native Americans and various other Indigenous Americans throughout North, Central, and South America, the Aboriginal Australians of well Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, etc.
If you truly think this bs is good for these people than you're even more moronic than I thought.
Please do a video on the Alaskan natives extremely under appreciated culture
Have you seen Molly of Denali
Are they different from Inuit in Canada?
There was a great little game called never alone that followed one of the Alaskan native peoples stories
@@gailism Very different the brooks mountain range separated them completely the inupiaqs spoke a different language but are always called inuits. Theres many different groups do to the size all with there own unique languages and cultures. Do to the horrible atrocities of the boarding schools. almost all of our languages an cultures were destroyed by taking kids over the age of 5 and having the older kids beat the younger kids for speaking there native tounge since we were all oral cultures it just devasted our ability to keep our history alive. They even banned singing and dancing because it was how we memorized and kept our stories throughout the years. We dont even get compensation the "indians" in the lower 48 get 50 grand by age 21. Sorry for the long rant haha just passionate about my ancestors past wish it was known to more people, hopefully theyll make a video on it and teach more people about us.
@@frostyalaska6371 Thank you for sharing! I have met some Inuit Canadians but did not know that there was much difference from Alaskan natives. Natives in Canada went through a very similar experience as the one you described. We had residential schools all across the country until the 1990s that tried to take away language and culture from the native people here. The government even killed sled dogs up north to stop people from moving around. Some people in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon still speak Inuktitut though, and Cree is also widely spoken
I was just thinking yesterday “what if cogito did a video on the Sami” 😂 thanks cogito!
I sensed it and made this for you : D
@@CogitoEdu Wizard O.O
"I know it's 'moose', but 'mooses' is more fun to say." Not all heroes wear capes. ❤
This is an exceptionally well put together video, absolutely high quality in all aspects. As a Hungarian with a special fondness for the Sámi people, I shall say: giitu.
Yes, we should embrace our real origins than claiming to be Turkic or Iranic. Maybe Orbán is personally a Turkic-Iranic person but Hungarians aren't.
Idk why, But TH-cam isn’t giving me notifications for y'all. Like this is the first upload i've seen since the history of tea.
same problem
@@spongeboblover7052 I got one for this one, but the first one in ages. Since Tea too, pretty sure.
Thanks for letting me know. TH-cam is really bad at telling subscribers about their subscriptions
@Ze Porg done that no dice
Same
*A turtle approves of the Sámi people*
And I approve of this turtle
Thanks turtle
On behalf of the Sámi people, giitu =)
@Kadir Garip on behalf of the people of the land, children of sun and wind, guardians of the reindeer - yes
If you want to take the piss, do it properly.
@Kadir Garip since most of us Sámi don't live in Sapmi anymore, we don't call ourselves "people of Sapmi" aka "people of the land" but just simply Sámi people (we're not one "tribe" given our different history, language, Gákti and culture)
I come from the land of the ice and snow, from the land of the midnight sun where the hot springs flow
I come from a very similar land, Alaska the land of the midnight sun, our native cultures and their histories are very similar, sadly. Have a great day, blessed be.
Too bad all the springs are cold in Sápmi :D
lol. Apparently not too many Led Zepplin fans, on this thread.
@@cheriann6461 apparently not😅
@@jameskosusnik1102 hi I've never met anybody from Alaska. are you of native American descent?
I particularly enjoyed the visuals this video, they were really well done! Thanks for the content as always, Cogito.
There's a great museum section on the Sami in a museum (the Nordiska museum) in Stockholm, for those interested and visiting.
yepp, and some beautiful stolen artifacts, that we Sámi are trying to return to their families.... colonialism...
Charly KatBat owned
@@pelayo341 ?
I'm thankful for content creators like you. I'm fascinated by indigenous peoples' culture but far too lazy to do the research.
i encourage you to put in the effort! it's the least we can do living in a colonized world
Happy to help people learn about indigenous people. Most people wouldn't bother to even watch a video, so you're not lazy :)
I agree with all of the people, every one liked
@@grizzlybearkid3265 I think my best effort was checking out the museum of anthropology in Dumaguete. Although even my own folks don't have all the pieces to their own past.
@@grizzlybearkid3265 the Sami were not colonised. Nords existed before they did.
it's important to note that "Sámi" as a language encompasses a large range of dialects, which each belong to a unique culture within the larger Sámi one. Northern Sámi is the most stable out of all of them, and is what most Sámi media is made in today
There are 10 recognized languages aswell as the extinct ones spoken in Kemi and Kaiinu, and within each language there are many dialects
Otters are magical. Look at the way they hold onto each other. They show us the importance of community and looking after each other. Otters are great fishers and quite intelligent. Also I did a tiny bit of looking into it and the Sami saw their lives on both the land and on sea as a crossing of two worlds and connected that to shamanistic practice. Some Sami tamed otters to help with fishing. Also they are extremely cute.
If you are curious about how the Sámi language sounds, Frozen 2 has been dubbed in Sámi! There are videos of it available on youtube
Kristoff is Sami for sure
@@ChantelStays That honestly could be! Makes sense now.
These videos are something special. Never voyeuristic, just wanting to learn about and respect others. I love it.
This is so nice. Other history channel's pick apart the Mediterranean but when they get to this part of the world it's like " Then some scary sailors came from here and wrecked stuff, anyway here's wonderwall".
Someone watches oversimplified!
I have to admit, I first was very sceptic about your video. I always am, when it comes to my people, as sadly a lot usually gets sugar coated, not to offend modern Swedish or Norwegian ears. And although I (surprisingly) widely agree with your video, there is one thing I'd like to add. In Sweden, we're still legally a "foreign minority", so we're not seen as the indigenous people of northern Sweden (at least as a legal status), and sadly also in a lot of people's heads, we're still just "stupid, smelly reindeer herders". But as you said yourself, we Sámi have time on our side, and we know how to wait. Mus lea sáme siellu!
Go back to asia
@@pelayo341 Dude, I'm European. Doavki!
@@pelayo341 you do realise that only 20%-15 of the Sami people's dna is of "recent" asian origin.
@@pelayo341 shut up they are European
@@charlykatbat4468 don't listen to those people. They are probably from USA trying to divide us more like they did to themselves. You guys are Europeans and natives as much like others. We came from the same hunter gatherers anwyas. We just mixed with different people.
The eradication of Sami culture is a dark spot in the history of Scandinavia.
Blame Christianity. The same was done to Scandinavians between 900-1000bc.
@SveinJohnnyFedje Christianity didn't exist in 1000 bc
Saami Culture in 9th-19th Century: Stop please!!
Saami Culture in 20th-21st Century: *The Future is now old man*
this is a pretty good introduction to the sami people, its the best english video i have found so far on YT, good work!
I do remember this from Frozen. I am proud that Frozen represents the Sami people as well.
Thank you for doing this video Cogito, My home of Alaska, unfortunately its natives share a similar history from both the russians and Americans. Good video Cogito and greetings from Anchorage, Alaska.
Interesting fact, the USA imported Sami into Alaska to teach the native Alaskans how to heard reindeer
@@CogitoEdu Thats so cool 😎. Although I believe I've heard of it but it was in elementary school, I think. Sometime when I was a kid. Could you also do a history of Alaska video as well?
@@CogitoEdu also you should try reindeer sausage if you come to alaska Cogito, its amazing
The major difference is that the Sami are technically not even indigenous to Europe. They migrated west into northern Scandinavia from Siberia just a couple thousand years ago. Hence why they have Asiatic features. The majority population of Scandinavia today, the Nordic people who are descendants of Vikings, are the indigenous people of the region.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Same with Indo European groups. IE people came from north caucasus to euro,assimilated entire old european groups.Almost no people of eurasia is actually native to nowhere.
400th like ... and Yes Young Blood Otters are truly amazing ... in some of the tribes of the Iroquois Confederation the story of how soil came to be so the first person could plant the tree of life . The Tuscarora ( the People of the Hemp) tell wonderful stories of the Otter. Part of my family is Scandinavian/Sámi genetically, many blessings upon you for this video.
Thankyou so much, whenever you two make a video it really is a gift
Cogito im sorry to ask but no nebula commentary?
The commentaries have stopped for now because we haven't had a good recording space. We're setting something new up at the minute :)
@@CogitoEdu ok thankyou, they are definitely the highlight on the site, and so fun, take your time and thankyou for all you do, love the origins of peoples and things series,
10:48 i never knew i would want to marry a voice
seriously though all my respect to the saami people and hope that you keep fighting for you culture without any casualty
_an amazigh man
Just saw this on Nebula, very good - and amusing in a delightfully silly way. 🙃 It's a sad state of affairs that I, as a Swedish citizen from birth, learned more about our indigenous population from an Irishman in a half-hour video on the internet than in 36 years of life. I only really knew they herd reindeer (didn't know they used to hunt), that colonialism went about as well for them as for the natives across the Arctic, that we committed cultural genocide through forced assimilation of their children like Britain/Canada did to the Inuit and First Nations, and the forced sterilisation. And the parliament and TV/radio programmes of course - pretty feeble as reparations go.
Like all Christian peoples (I reckon the Christ dude in that word might take issue with that), ours is a history of unbelievable hypocrisy - right up until recent times. We should be teaching this history in schools from a very early age - we are no better than the British, French or Spanish, we too have exploited, persecuted and murdered people on the native lands which we have stolen from them. As we see the precursors to genocide falling into place all over Europe, we need to be teaching about ALL colonialism in EVERY part of the world from the perspective of the colonised here as in all majority-white countries, but we should start at home!
I knew very little or next to nothing beyond "they worship nature and stuff", knew about yoik but not its significance, knew there was some sort of shamanistic thing going on, heard of the creation myth. And I love Lapphundar! One of the oldest and most intelligent dog breeds, and total little charmers. They need a ton of exercise and activity though, so I think I'll have to do without their company.
Anyway, thanks, great vid.
My family escaped to America in 1898 and I think I understand why now.
I was so sure yoiks was just Cogito saying yikes in an Irish accent
I was born in the UK and just got my maternal DNA results showing the Sami people as my ancestors. I responded on a visceral level to their mythology, drumming and yoiks from this video and intend to explore my roots further. Thank you for such a well-made and contemporary video
Is that possible? Some sami came with the drakkars of vikings in the year 536 AD and settled in Great Britain? And his Dna can still bee traced? It sounds very dubious to me sorry. Perhaps a more prosaic, modern, normal explanation? (your great great grandmoder came from Samni to England as a cook for some rich diplomat who were in Finland? or some simmilar history)
@@antifazisbonifaz6964my results said the same thing and also linked me to great Britain as well. I was confused by this because of how I look and the fact that I was linked to anywhere in between e everywhere else is indigenous Americas and A LOT of places in Africa. This confused me.. especially after researching I couldn't understand the link.. especially looking through family records I'd hoped to find maybe one side of family there and I guess in great Britain but my research was to no avail. This is the first video that has been this good with details so now I understand completely. ❤
@@antifazisbonifaz6964I'm just a mix of the worlds indigenous 🥲
@@eclecticraeen a very good lineage. You should be proud of it. Very remarkable 👍👍👍👏👏👏🙂👌👌
Please do a video on the Iroquois confederacy, they are an amazing people, also loved this video
Your 'Peoples' videos are my favourite.
Anyway, time to listen to some Yoik bangers.
Yoiks bangers are my new favourite genre of music. They make everything sound epic
@@CogitoEdu I was glad you put Keiino in there and Frozen, both my favourite Yoik/Joiks and was glad to see new ones too!
I love Sami people remind me of the Philippines indigenous people called Aeta that have been through so much tough times in there own land😞❤️
I looked up some more Yoiks o TH-cam. Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks Cogito, for introducing me to a new form of entertainment.
Wow!
Absolutely fascinating, I had never heard of these people I'm so happy that I found your video this was just so frikkin great!!
Glad you enjoyed!
I documented a series of slides covering a research expedition among the Sapmi people for the Bata Shoe Museum a few years back! Glad to learn a bit more about them now. :)
I had a feeling these people would be next.
Fascinating culture
Goose - Geese
Moose - Meese
The more you know.
I prefer the plurals “ Meece” or “Moosi” for Moose .
I was very lucky as an Englishman, to have lived with a Sami family on the island of Kvaløya, close to Trømso for 2 years. Really was an amazing experience. I have travelled a lot, but that was the most memorable time.
That was a really well done video, I knew a little bit about the Sami but now I feel very educated. Good work
The Sámi people, send representatives to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (DAPP). Which was the largest indigenous protest in North America.
The parallels of the Sami and the indigenous people of North and South America are striking. Oddly, Christianity seems to be the common denominator in their erasure. Culture after culture Christianity has destroyed. It's heartbreaking. I'm grateful that the Sami are still here to tell their stories of their ancestors, and continue their stewardship of the earth.
It is amazing and beautiful that these peoples learned about and accepted Christianity. They gained access to Heaven. For Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior said that no one comes to the Father except through Him. Accept the Gospel and the Gates of Heaven shall open before you.
@@Ignisan_66 Jesus didn't advocate for cultural genocide. They didn't just accept Christianity, it was forced on them. Btw, if you're so interested in the gospel, you'd know that Jesus wasn't sent for everyone. Only Yahweh's chosen people. Christianity is a scam from the Romans to regain power, and they succeeded. Bravo.
The Sami came and settles on the Scandinavians land. Not the other way around. But yes, Christianity also fucked Scandinavians. Convert or die was the choice. Most Sami settled here in Norway hundreds of years after this and most of the Norwegian population was already brainwashed.
I thought I knew about the Sami... but this video was WAY more in-depth than I thought! Learnt loads!
This culture is so cool! This is the VERY first time that I’ve EVER heard of this culture! I guess I’ve heard of them before from Frozen, but I’ve never k ew of the name of this culture! It’s so sad what colonization has done to this culture and other indigenous cultures around the world! Thank u SO MUCH for enlightening me about the Sami people! ☺️
@SpätzlenFoxTea quiet
There white \0/
@@brittanyhayes1043 uh what point are you trying to make?
Well it’s not really a case of colonialism since the Norse(the ancestors of the Norwegian and Swedish) have been there for thousands of years as well it’s more of a case of one powerful group subjugating a weaker group which has happened throughout all of human history doesn’t make it any less bad it’s just not colonialism
@@eionthegod These people are idio ts. They think anyone that lives in a Tipi is "indigenous". Sami are the Colonizers here, they arrived THOUSANDS of years after the Norse. Anyone with even 10 minutes of Anthropoligcal study under their belts knows this
I'm Norwegian, and I absolutely love the Sámi.
Yoiks - a truly beautiful sound 👍
Hail to the otters!
You’re going love the fact that there’s a small village which is called: the otter
13:02 Finns did not force Sami to move to north, actually. For a large part, Sami people in the south melted into Finns.
As far as I know Finns robbed and killed Sámi and that's why Sámi moved to north. If I'm wrong and you have some sources I could read or something please let me know I definitely want to know more about our history
@@paikio
One thing about us Finns is that we never ever will admit any large scale wrong doings towards any other people group. That's because it messes up our self image as innocent, honest, just people.
You see us Finns like to see ourselves as victims of constant oppression (Swedish and Russian oppression), which washes away our own sins.
I know little of how much Finns did cruel things to Sami, but I do know about our tendency to see ourselves as pure of evil, especially the evils of European style colonisation and oppressing other peoples. That's one of the Finnish soul's corner stones - the self image of pure innocence in all things bad and cruel.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R yeah I know Finns like to ignore everything that's wrong in this country. Funny thing is Finland is still treating Sámi like crap.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R that is just how humans are . Only small percentage of humans admit such truths and you should be proud to be one of them . Believe me , even In Africa , some tribes did bad things but they completely deny because they weren't the oppressed ones . Thanks 😊
@@FINNSTIGAT0R Varmaan oot kuunnellu joitain saamelais nationalisteja. Useat tutkijat nykypäivänä kyseenalaistaa väitteet jostain väkivaltaisesta kolonisaatiosta.
Thank you for giving voice to indigenous peoples, movements for decolonization, and challenges Eurocentricism.
I don't think this is going to help decolonization buddy. Decolonization is not happening.Erucentralism is going to stay but the Native cultures ca. Be revived within it.
@@brittanyhayes1043 with a rising China and a further declining USA and Europe, im not sure Eurocentrism will remain dominant
Scandinavian didn't colonize the land, Scandinavians arrived thousands of years before Sami, the Sami population were pressed into Sweden and Noway about 2000 years ago , the Swedes and Norweigian ancestors came there 12,000 years ago , how early Sami came to Finland i'm not sure but I think it was 3500 years ago the label indigenous is a legal term to protect their culture and language, it does not mean they are native to the land
Weird. Im Finnish and learned a whole lot from this. I mean what I knew beforehand can be summed up in "yeah, so there is this people up north who herd reindeer, have drums with stickfigures on them, like blue clothing and apparently our government was a bit of dick to them sometime ago." 🤔
We learn way too little Samí history even here in Sweden. There was some in the curriculum, especially regarding one of the Samí languages, but it is honestly shameful how much they don't teach. I knew about the forceful sterilization, but I am certain most Swedes my generation don't. We really need to teach this, I am ashamed watching this video with how much I didn't know. The things the Swedish government have done to "repay" the Samí for what can only be described as humanitarian crimes are way too poor and almost disrespectful. Thanks for the video Cogito!
So happy to hear that this video was useful to you. Learning about the Sami is so important to Nordic people. It's a shame the entire history isn't taught
Yes, this video was more informative on the topic than all my school education in Finland.
Colonialism has that as a side effect
This is a wonderful video, I have always wanted to know about the Sámi but I had no idea of the scale of their suffering. Every time I stumble upon some video or article about how some people were massacred and their culture erased in the name of religion and progress, I feel so angry and disgusted that my parents had me baptised and raised as Catholic. I don't care that there are religious people who are horrified by these atrocious things, nothing can remove the metaphorical vomit I feel covered in.
Same thing happened to Finns. One difference is that it happened to Finns much earlier compared to the Sami, when the Swedes launched a supposed crusade to Finland in the 1150s. 2 more "crusades" would happen in the following century, although only the second one out of the 3 was actually sanctioned by the Pope, and many native uprisings as well.
Literally relax. Every major religion, Abrahamic or not, has done this. You're not special.
I'm a norwegian, and I really wish my people treated the sami better than we did.
You do know that Christianity did worse to our forefathers the Vikings right? Convert or die was the choice.
Most of the Sami and their decedents came hundreds of years after this happened.
i never knew i loved sami culture until now
That was so educational and interesting! I was aware of the Sami people, I just never new their history. It seems wherever there were indigenous people; European, American, Australian, Canadian and whoever else fits under that umbrella, felt the need to take over and try to obliterate a culture. It is so sad. Especially , when these cultures have so much to offer and add to us as a whole. Thank you for sharing this!
Its importaint for ppl to know that "urfolk" in Norway and Sweden, the status the Sami ppl have is not a synonyme for "indigenous" as in refrence to for example Native Americans. While the Sami ppl inhabited the utmost upper northern parts of Scandinavia, they came later than the ancestors of modern day Swedes and Norwegians, who inhabited the southern and middle Scandinavia. The reason the Sami ppl have "urfolk" status - or "indigenous" as a close term, is because they were present before the formation of the Scandinavian countries (about 9000 thousands years after the first settelers). Because of that, and because the are a minority they are regarded as indigenous.
Yes, the term indigenous as applied to the Sami is a political status rather than as native settlers. In fact, the Sami being regarded as the only indigenous people in Europe by certain organisation has confused many to believe they are the only European natives. Really offensive actually. 😞
Indigenous in a political sense just means a peoples who land is colonized which Sampi is it doesn’t mean first to have arrived
They are all beautiful gorgeous animals.
The art, the subject, the educational value on this video was *chef's kisses* Thank you for this video!I had never heard of these indigenous peoples before.
I just love this video. Funny and very respectful.
I'm Slovak and the word Sami is funny to me cause in Slovak language "sami" means "alone". (Specifically "we alone", it is a plural nominative of the word "sám" which means "alone").
I had to go to your channel and open this video through your videos tab to get here. I'll leave a comment for the algorithm. Very frustrating I can imagine.
Thank you :)
Been waiting to see you cover this! Love your content, you inspired me to check our Sikhi for a time. Would you consider doing an episode on the Assyrian people, culture, religion, etc? That's another cultural group that I find utterly fascinating.
Just found out through ancestry dna that im almost 50% Sámi and Siberian. Just don't tell my Irish dad hahah.
the most confusing thing to me on the Mappa Mundi is the two fecking Wombles bashing each other with axes, they're just above the Sami skier
really? That's the most confusing thing about the Mappa Mundi? Honestly I couldn't even pick one single thing, maybe a "Top 20" or something like that haha
At 2:18 I have to correct you as a Ural myself. Whilst modern Sámi are largely European in DNA, their origin begins in North Asia & Eurasia & their ancestors are Cro Magnon whereas Indo-Europeans are from the Yamna branch.
So do you mean that Sami are primarily descended from the ancestral European population known as Western Hunter Gatherers?
Cro Magnon were from Central Europe, around the French and Italian Alps. Not from Siberia. Also, ALL Europeans DNA is originally from Eurasia, includiing Indo-European Yamnaya
Dude you editing is just so good.
Thank you :D
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In what sense are they indigenous in a way that other Europeans are not?
Edit: as I understand it now, what’s notable is they are ‘indigenous minorities’. It’s not that they are more indigenous than the Norwegians, it’s that they are a minority community in Norway that is indigenous to Norway.
He actually try to explain that, the first people to come to Scandinavian after the ice melted are the ancestors of the Sami, yes it’s true that the language is from the east but that is just because the migrants from the east got integrated with the already existing people
@@oddmahttesara773 I saw that, that doesn’t really answer the question though (not to sound rude). In what sense are the Sami indigenous to northern Fennoscandia in a way the Swedes are not to southern Sweden?
@@Lemwell7 They're not. Obviously, most European ethnic groups are Indigenous to their land, like the French in France. Indigenous is a term primarily used to refer to stateless minorities, but even then UN recognizes other European peoples as Indigenous, such as the Basque and Circassians. The Sami have just gotten notoriety because their history has been compared frequently to that of the Native Americans.
The sami comes from Asia
The other European groups come from east Europe or are the Basque who come from western Europe
@@oddmahttesara773 Claiming Sami are indigenous on the basis that the proto-Samic speakers assimilated the scattered paleo Europeans in the region does not really make sense in my opinion. Sami are linguistically Finno Ugric and genetics wise are connected to other Finno Ugric speakers. Those scattered paleo Europeans left really nothing behind, except for a handful of loanwords in Samic languages. Even cultural and religious remnants seem to be pretty much nonexistent since the Sami religion had the same basic principles and roots of other religion practiced by Uralic speakers. Same goes for reindeer herding, that is a common thing among Uralic people too. Even the creation myth with the white heavenly reindeer is very similar to myths found among Ugric and Samoyedic people. They are not a continuation of the people who were there before, they are a continuation of the people who came out on top culturally and linguistically, which was Finno Ugric migrants into the region.
"Around 1000 CE, Finns began to force the Sami north." This isn't really the case though, the heartlands of settlement by the Finnish tribes were still in southern Finland and would be for centuries. Now of course there were people who did go further north during this time and even before, but those were mainly hunters, trappers and traders. Some permanent settlements were established, but those were few and far between and mainly served a purpose of trade. Finns did not expand into the rest of Finland in a meaningful way until Sweden started settling Finns further north (and into other regions like the Karelian isthmus and Ingria) in the 1500s/1600s.
@@finnicpatriot6399 Ok, I accidentally deleted my first response. But yes, I do know Finns were in the region before 1000 CE. The point of my comment was that Finns did not migrate and settle beyond southern Finland in a large migration before Sweden started moving Finns around into the "empty" lands that was the rest of Finland. This video implies that Finns were somehow already by 1000 CE pushing Sami north more and more and settling further north on a large scale, which was not the case at the time.
@@jokemon9547Finland did still sterilize them and try to take their culture away so
we went to a small war killed a swedish catholic king and where driven out of europe to north america in the 1600s but never written down.
Frankly, it's amazing how we "civilized" people had committed so many typically "barbaric" actions against "barbaric" peoples... While never realizing the utter hypocrisy of our actions.
But alas, such is the Human Way, where one person's 'even hand' is not the same as someone else's.
Very intressting, so I am from Hungary, our history says, there were two brothers in somewhere in Mongolia, and then they split, one traveled to the north, and became the Sami, the other traveled to Hungary. When the first time a met a Sami, I felt so connected, even I dudnt know, he was a Sami. Because of the colours of the clothes, and the open way we spoke.
Sami are a protected people here in Sweden. And I for one are very glad they are here ^_^ They are important.
Still a lot of racism in the north
I just learnt something new and I will be looking more into this to be educated thank you 🙌🏾
Thank you for the video! One thing that I have to address though, is the fact that the word "indigenous" gets thrown around a lot and it seems to have lost its meaning. To be honest, I personally don't consider the "indigenousness" to be a very solid factor when it comes to describing peoplegroups. Even for us, despite having been here for a while, we still have an original ancient homeland where we came from and we are not really the orignial inhabitants so it's not like we're originally from here either. It is nice to see us getting more recognition though, especially positive stuff so we don't always have to keep our identities and backgrounds as a secret in the public anymore.
Everyone originally came from Africa, so in that case only africans can be indigenous
The Sami are considered indigenous by political designation. The traditional meaning of indigenous as original settlers would apply to most Europeans (excluding eastern/Slavs that arrived on the scene relatively late.) It's important not to confuse the cultural/political designation of the term with native settlers.
Last thing I expected was the thick inner city Dublin accent! Brilliant.
Thanks a million champ!!
My theory for the otters, and looms, and both other animals that live in water and on land, is that water is sacred and even seen as one of the portals to the spiritworld in most north and centraleuropean cultures, . in the late bronze age and in the iron age, sacrifices was made in lakes and creeks, both material objects and human sacrifices, the humen sacrifices became the bogmummies like the egtveds girl, the tollund man and so on.
I am more than a quarter Norwegian, with Swedish and Danish ancestry also... I used to ask why my Great Grandmother had olive skin, slanted eyes, and I was never given a direct answer.. I was told "The Vikings." When I was a child, I honestly thought my Great Grandmother was from India. This makes A LOT of sense.
They seemed so chill. Literally.
Beautiful gorgeous animals.
I am Sami. Thru Greenland into Canada then Boston
The snowshoe and boot combo at 7:04 is genius
I love my Sami brothers and sisters in Norway
Huui buorre! («Well done» in sami, literally «very good».) 👏 One small detail: Many sami have never relied on reindeer as their main staple food; hunting/fishing and gathering was the way of life for all sami, until the black death. Then a lot of us was recruited to settle empty scandinavian farms, so the state could earn taxes. These sami have never been reindeer herders; the same with those of us living in regions where moose or fishing was the most important food source.
I learned more from this video about the Saami than 12 years of school did.
Let me guess, you’re Scandinavian
@@oddmahttesara773 Yeah, I’m Norwegian and the two most boring “sub subjects” in school are “Nynorsk” (a less popular version of Norwegian written by a minority of the population) and Sámi history. I was therefore pleasantly surprised when I enjoyed learning about them here, something I wouldn’t imagine ever doing during school.
I lived in Hereford and actually got to see the Mappa Mundi. Wonderful experience and I absolutely recommend seeing it in person if you can
it'd be awesome if you did a video on the inuit next :)
Lol I loved your depiction of "buying wind".
A similar video on the Basques is just waiting to be made by this channel.
The content is wonderfully informative, but hearing you pronounce the “th” sound is why I watch ☺️
Big fan from SW Missouri 🇺🇸
So fascinating! This channel is always really good, but I think this my favorite episode so far. I would have never even heard of these people. And to think, a culture that stayed in complete harmony with the land and animals, and never over hunted or over foraged!
Learning a whole lot on your channel. Things I never knew about
Awesome video. I'm just sad you didn't mention just HOW they used the fly agaric mushroom to travel between worlds. The reindeer had to eat them and then they drank the urine. It's poisonous to humans but the reindeer metabolize the main compound and make it just right for humans. It further strengthened the bond between shaman and reindeer
Santa had to get those flying reindeer from somewhere!
@@CogitoEdu A very good 😁😁solid point 👌👍👍👍👍🎯🎯
This is a myth, and isnt even about sami. It was invented by some dude sitting in europe in the 1700’s, writing about siberian natives he’d never met. In other words, an unfounded myth based on nothing. Its often repeated tho.